Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Total Technology, Cherry Hill, New Jersey (W15QKN-18-D-0073); Pioneering Decisive Solutions, California, Maryland (W15QKN-18-D-0078); Logisys Technical Services, Huntsville, Alabama (W15QKN-18-D-0077), will compete for each order of the $125,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for automated test system testing, and diagnostics and net-centric support services.

BOEING has $25.7m U.S. Army contract for eight CH-47F new-build helicopters for Royal Saudi Land Forces Aviation Command.

Distinguishing the subtle differences in behavior between innocent bystanders and enemy combatants hiding among them is at the core of a new Darpa program.

Italy and Greece will perform air policing for the tiny Balkan nation of Montenegro beginning June 5, the NATO alliance has announced.

Ukraine is to purchase 55 helicopters from France to renew its parapublic rotary-wing fleet.

A pair of private equity investors targeting the federal marketplace have taken over LinQuest, a space systems provider to defense and intelligence agencies.

Despite ongoing reforms, NASA has failed to accurately size up the value and performance of hundreds of reimbursable agreements.

Japan’s ruling party has called for the country to spend 2% of GDP, double the limit that Japan has observed for almost six decades.

At least 910 state and local police, sheriff, fire and emergency services agencies in the U.S. have acquired drones, a new study says.

The U.S. defense satellite market could reach $30.30 billion by 2023, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.3%, a new forecast says.

“You do not need a high-end stealth fighter to destroy a narcotics factory. It is not a cost-effective way to combat violent extremism,” U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said during a May 29 speech at the Atlantic Council.

Virgin Galactic is expected to begin test plans for a longer duration rocket-powered flight of its SpaceShipTwo (SS2) VSS Unity suborbital spaceplane.

Retired NASA space shuttle astronaut Don Peterson, who participated in the first spacewalk aboard one of the winged orbiters, has died.

Japan has taken an initial step toward replacing its Bell AH-1S Cobra helicopters, seeking information from prospective suppliers.

NASA is exercising an option for production of the third and fourth JPSS satellites for the NOAA by Orbital ATK, of Dulles, Virginia, through 2026.

Airbus has created a new Urban Air Mobility (UAM) unit and opened itself to collaboration with other manufacturers.

Germany’s Siemens is stepping up its involvement in the growing electric aircraft market, supplying propulsion motors for projects in the U.S. and Europe.

India has concluded commercial negotiations with Russia to purchase five S-400 Surface-to-Air Missile systems despite serious U.S. concerns.

Kazakhstan is gradually expanding its fleet of Russian-made Sukhoi Su-30SM multirole fighters.

A multi-agency/contractor fault tree investigation is probing the degraded cooling performance of the Advanced Baseline Imager camera aboard NOAA's newest weather satellite.

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Honeywell have jointly developed navigation systems to make military aircraft immune to GPS jamming.

The introduction of a fully redundant precision landing mode in the Super Hornet and Growler should eliminate the need for stick-and-throttle carrier landings.

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $558.3m U.S. Navy contract for sustainment support of low-rate initial production Lot 11 F-35 Lightning II aircraft.

Israel’s Tactical Robotics has conducted the first “mission-representative” demonstration of its Cormorant vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned aircraft system.

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